Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Grade Level:
Post-secondary
Abstract: With 1,400 courses now available, MIT is delivering on the promise of MIT OpenCourseWare. We have heard from educators and learners around the world that they are benefiting from the materials offered freely and openly on the MIT OCW site. In order to understand how well MIT OCW is fulfilling its mission
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Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Grade Level:
Post-secondary
Abstract: Sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College, Academic Commons shares these principles with the Center's exploration of liberal arts education: (1) Free exchange: open source technology and the free and open exchange of ideas, intellectual and creative work; (2) Heterogeneity:
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Grade Level:
Post-secondary
Abstract: A blog about media, learning, and OER
Subject: Science and Technology
Abstract: The Bazaar is a community portal for people who want to use, exchange and share Open Source Software and resources to support learning
Grade Level:
Post-secondary
Abstract: A group of educators will meet at Foothill College this week to begin studying how to encourage widespread adoption of free online textbooks.
Funded by a $530,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources hopes to ease the
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Subject: Science and Technology
Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary
Abstract: Brewster Kahle is on a mission. He wants the whole planet to have access to human knowledge. All human knowledge. And he's striving to make that possible--one byte at a time.
Ten years ago, Kahle founded the nonprofit Internet Archive, with the goal of preserving the hitherto ephemeral pleasures of
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Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Grade Level:
Post-secondary
Subject: Science and Technology
Abstract: The CALIBRATE (Calibrating eLearning in Schools) project (October 2005 – March 2008) brings together eight Ministries of Education, (including six MoEs from new member states), to carry out a multi-level project designed to support the collaborative use and exchange of learning resources in schools.
Abstract: The Cape Town Open Education Declaration arises from a small but lively meeting convened in Cape Town in September 2007. The aim of this meeting was to accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education.
The first concrete outcome of this meeting is the Cape
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Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary
Abstract: Welcome to the website for the new CoSN K-12 Open Technologies Leadership Initiative.
The goal of this Web site is to help educators and technologists with the planning, evaluation, decision-making, and implementation processes associated with adopting Open Technologies in K-12.
Abstract: An article outlining some of the concerns and conflicts between Creative Commons and the Australian Copyright Owners Community, and discusses other publications regarding this conflict. The article is written by Delia Browne, an iSummit Scholar and the National Copyright Directory, Australian Schools
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Subject: Science and Technology
Abstract: This paper addresses some of the licensing issues raised by creating and licensing Open Educational Resources. Flexibility and ease in accessing educational resources, remixing and embedding them in other, more culturally specific materials, is central to the OER movement. Flexibility can only achieved
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Abstract: My name is Jennifer Maddrell. I am a graduate student at Indiana University studying in the Instructional Systems Technology department. I am taking the program "at a distance" so I can practice what I will one day preach.
This site is my working journal and personal learning environment related to
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Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Grade Level:
Post-secondary
Abstract: On January 23-24, 2006, Intelligent Television hosts the Economics of Open Content symposium at MIT to bring together representatives from media industries, cultural and educational institutions, and legal and business minds to discuss how to make open content happen better and faster.
Topics include
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Abstract: Scott Leslie is an educational technology researcher and emerging technology analyst. He currently works as the Manager of the BCcampus Learning Resources Centre, a multi-disciplinary 'open content' repository. In addition, he researches course management systems, repository and eportfolio software with
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Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Abstract: This year’s theme is "Next-Gen IT: New Leaders, New Students, New Directions, and Expectations." Whether your focus is administrative services, information resources, teaching and learning, technology infrastructure, or management, you can benefit from attending the Fourth Annual EDUCAUSE Western Regional
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Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Abstract: elearningpost is an intelligent digest of daily links to articles and news stories about Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management, Personalization and more. Besides the daily links, elearningpost brings out feature articles and related special reports on the
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Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Abstract: This Monthly Insight to Interoperability reports on the European Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) meeting that took place in Brussels on 23 March 2006.
Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Abstract: European Schoolnet (EUN) is a unique not-for-profit consortium of 28 ministries of education in Europe created in 1997. EUN provides major European education portals for teaching, learning and collaboration and leads the way in bringing about change in schooling through the use of new technology.
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